Setting up a multi-platform VPN?

Michael Bretterklieber mbretter at jawa.at
Fri Jul 18 23:32:40 PDT 2003


Hi,

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Donald Burr of Borg wrote:
> Now, with my (admittedly virtually nonexistant) knowledge of VPN, I know
> that Linux boxen tend to use FreeSWAN.  FreeBSD, on the other hand, seems
> to use something called RACOON.  And lord knows what OS X uses (although,
> since it's FreeBSD based, maybe RACOON can be compiled/adapted to use on
> it too?)  (although I just did a Google search, and according to this
> O'Reilly Network article, it seesm that OS X has its own built-in PPTP
> implementation: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/20/vpn.html)
>
> Can anyone more knowledgable than I help me figure out how to get this
> multi-platform VPN monster going?  Help!  I need some backup!!
>
You can use MPD as PPTP server  on your 4.8 Box.
(cd /usr/ports/net/mpd && make && make install)

bye,
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